跟
gēn HSK1

heel

跟 gēn
with preposition
Connects a person to someone they are doing an activity with, talking to, or being compared with; also used to mean "from" when borrowing things.

你不能这样跟我说话！

nǐ bù​néng zhè​yàng gēn wǒ shuō huà!

You can't talk to me like that!

你可以跟我们回中国。

nǐ kě​yǐ gēn wǒ​men huí zhōng​guó.

You can come back to China with us.

to follow verbpreposition
to walk or move behind someone in the same direction

他走到哪里，他的狗就跟到哪里。

tā zǒu dào nǎ​li, tā de gǒu jiù gēn dào nǎ​li.

His dog follows him wherever he goes.

and conjunction
Used to link two nouns or pronouns with equal status, similar to 和 hé

我们都有自己的生活跟自己的问题。

wǒ​men dōu yǒu zì​jǐ de shēng​huó gēn zì​jǐ de wèn​tí.

We all have our own lives and our own problems.

我知道你跟爸爸都讨厌我。

wǒ zhī​dao nǐ gēn bà​ba dōu tǎo​yàn wǒ.

I know that you and Dad both hate me.

heel nounlocative
(bound form) the back part of the foot, or the heel of a shoe or sock
to marry
(of a woman) to marry someone

Cross-References

Synonym

Same as

Has erhua variant

Referenced by

Frequency
Character
Written text
541st most common 392.5 per million
Movie subtitles
125th most common 1437.8 per million appears in 94% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1877.4 per million appears in 93% of films
Written text
463.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+8DDF

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)